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  1. Lirsy

    Active thief on the Camino Frances, July 2021

    There are almost no robberies on the Camino. The fact that a robbery, without violence, becomes news, proves it. But for things to continue like this, it is necessary that when you know of some type of criminal act you report it to the police as soon as possible.
  2. Lirsy

    LIVE from the Camino On the Frances now.

    How many pilgrims do you find in the albergues? An average day, I mean. I am thinking about starting next week. In Leon? Logroño? ... Primitivo? I am not sure yet.
  3. Lirsy

    Adverse weather? Q to pilgrims walking now

    Here in Spain we have not had any extreme weather event in recent times ... and even counting the unpredictability of the weather ... I have not heard any extreme weather forecast.
  4. Lirsy

    Any help?

    I can tell you what is required to enter Spain (I have no idea about the French requirements). You have to enter Spain with a document proving that you are fully vaccinated or with a negative PCR test.
  5. Lirsy

    Starting out August 27 from SJPDP

    Maybe we'll meet there ... I'm thinking of starting around those dates!
  6. Lirsy

    Poll: Best time to walk

    It was pretty good ... You just have to find out how the Hospital section is before deciding whether to take it or go through Pola de Allande.
  7. Lirsy

    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Is there a conversation in Spain about a tourism reset

    For yourself, this is something you have to decide for yourself. For the authorities, it is. It's also a cultural fact, it is also a ...
  8. Lirsy

    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Is there a conversation in Spain about a tourism reset

    This is something that, since it is evident for pilgrims, is not so evident for the general population, who have mostly never walked the Camino. Some initiatives have been proposed, not very successfully, such as requiring 300 km for the granting of the Compostela. I would say of of them!🤣 I...
  9. Lirsy

    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Is there a conversation in Spain about a tourism reset

    I would say that the Camino is indeed irrelevant from a financial point of view (approximately 0.4% of the total number of tourists and tourists with a very low rate of expenses per day), but instead it can be seen that governments (as much national and regional as local) are paying a lot of...
  10. Lirsy

    Can I have my backpack transported to municipal albergues?

    For most albergues, yes you can. Some other albergues have an agreement with a bar or a store (always very close to the albergue) and the company will leave your backpack in the store or bar. If that is the case, the albergue manager (el hospitalero) will inform you upon arrival about the place...
  11. Lirsy

    How do you choose your first Camino route?

    To plan your Camino, I think you must first answer yourself a few questions: Is it important for you to start at the beginning of the Camino (assuming that any Camino has a beginning) and go to the end of the Camino (which is probably Santiago or Fisterra) or you don´t care about the starting...
  12. Lirsy

    Opening of the Holy Door / Beginning of the Holy Year

    For those who are interested, you can follow the opening of the Holy Door online on December 31 from 3:30 p.m. Spanish time.
  13. Lirsy

    Why do pilgrims carry on when it is really hard?

    I think the answer is not that difficult. I think that what leads you to carry your backpack, that forcing you to leave many things at home that you would normally take with you, is the same reason that leads a person to climb a steep mountain instead of taking the chairlift and enjoying a...
  14. Lirsy

    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Legitimate price rise or price gouging on the Camino?

    I think it is a mixture of both situations. On the one hand, you see albergues that are operating at a minimal fraction of their capacity (10/15%). This is due to the sum of two factors, the low number of pilgrims, the need to reduce the capacity of the albergue. (e.g.: in Cornellana, with a...
  15. Lirsy

    Number of pilgrims in CF in real time

    Does anyone remember the address of that website that shows the number of pilgrims at each stage of the Camino Frances in more or less real time?
  16. Lirsy

    Recent thoughts on walking in September during Covid

    ‌I'm not going to tell you what to do. I will tell you what I am doing (right or wrong) and how I feel about it. ‌ ‌Right now I am walking the "Camino Frances". I am writing to you from the albergue in Torres del Río. ‌ ‌I think it is clear that if I do it is because I thought it was the right...
  17. Lirsy

    Starting in Logroño 10/08/2020

    Just to relax the situation a bit! Albergue in Torres del Rio. 22 euros including bed, dinner or lunch and swimming pool. BTW ... the lunch was quite good!!😁😁 You already know that the Camino implies a lot of suffering!!😂😂😂😂 More seriously now, against several guides, today we walked 28...
  18. Lirsy

    Camino now

    Ep!! Who you are? I'm in Estella tonight. Tomorrow I will sleep in Torres del Río. The next day I will sleep in Logroño. If you see a Spaniard with a black backpack with a little orange ... it's probably me! As far as I know, there are absolutely no plans for a new lockdown in Spain. What's...
  19. Lirsy

    Camino now

    I finished Tui - Santiago one week ago. I intended to start in Porto, but there were basically no pilgrims and I jumped to Tui. The albergues are open, but as I told you, very few pilgrims up to Tui. From Tui, the number of pilgrims was quite reasonable.
  20. Lirsy

    Starting in Logroño 10/08/2020

    In order to avoid this thread be too long or boring, I'll stop updating the situation today. If I see something special, I will keep you informed. Today I arrived in Pamplona. I could not go ahead because the two albergues in Cizur are closed (one due to the 2020 situation and the other for a...

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